The eagerly awaited Samsung Galaxy Note 6 could be with us sooner than expected, with an early August unveiling tipped.

Although past flagship members of the Galaxy Note range have been unveiled during the first week of September at the annual Berlin-based IFA convention, insiders have pegged the flagship phablet to drop a month earlier than normal.

The exact date being referred to is currently unclear, but is expected to be between August 2 and 5, with the move having been moved forward in order to avoid dropping within days of the upcoming iPhone 7.

Although the latest version of the stylus-hosting handset was called the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, it's currently unclear what the new device will be called.

Although the Note 6 would seem the most likely – that is how numbers work, y'know – it's been repeatedly suggested the phone could drop as the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 in order to fall in line with the existing, and brilliant, Samsung Galaxy S7.

It's not just the name that's expected to be pulled across from the S7 either. Like its little brother, the Note 6/7 will reportedly run a new low-light specialising 12-megapixel camera, Exynos chipset and Super AMOLED QHD display.